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Knight on Horseback and Lansquenet, c. 1497

The source of this military genre subject remains a mystery. There is a certain urgency compelling the knight as he beckons to his man-at-arms to run faster. But to what destination? The scene appears to foretell Cervantes’ "Don Quixote" (1605), a tale of a bumbling knight and his sidekick, but surely Dürer never intended the same comic irony. Perhaps the lively dog in the foreground is a clue that they are not far from home. The motif of the galloping rider recalls Dürer’s famous woodcut "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".